Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts
UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Security Protocols
Public-key support for group collaboration
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Seeing-Is-Believing: Using Camera Phones for Human-Verifiable Authentication
SP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Secure Device Pairing based on a Visual Channel (Short Paper)
SP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Mobile data service fuels the desire for uniqueness
Communications of the ACM - Privacy and security in highly dynamic systems
Loud and Clear: Human-Verifiable Authentication Based on Audio
ICDCS '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
A Human-Verifiable Authentication Protocol Using Visible Laser Light
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SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
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WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
HAPADEP: Human-Assisted Pure Audio Device Pairing
ISC '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Information Security
Can i borrow your phone?: understanding concerns when sharing mobile phones
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
xShare: supporting impromptu sharing of mobile phones
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Serial hook-ups: a comparative usability study of secure device pairing methods
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Usability and security of out-of-band channels in secure device pairing protocols
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Caveat eptor: A comparative study of secure device pairing methods
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Provably secure password-authenticated key exchange using Diffie-Hellman
EUROCRYPT'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
Shake well before use: authentication based on accelerometer data
PERVASIVE'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Pervasive computing
Usability analysis of secure pairing methods
FC'07/USEC'07 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Financial cryptography and 1st International conference on Usable Security
Efficient device pairing using "Human-comparable" synchronized audiovisual patterns
ACNS'08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Applied cryptography and network security
Two heads are better than one: security and usability of device associations in group scenarios
Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Influence of user perception, security needs, and social factors on device pairing method choices
Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Groupthink: usability of secure group association for wireless devices
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Secure communications over insecure channels based on short authenticated strings
CRYPTO'05 Proceedings of the 25th annual international conference on Advances in Cryptology
SAS-Based authenticated key agreement
PKC'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography
Efficient mutual data authentication using manually authenticated strings
CANS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Cryptology and Network Security
EasyGroups: binding mobile devices for collaborative interactions
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How groups of users associate wireless devices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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When users wish to establish wireless radio communication between/among their devices, the channel has to be bootstrapped first. The process of setting up a secure communication channel between two previously unassociated devices is referred to as "Secure Device Pairing". The focus of prior research on this topic has mostly been limited to "personal pairing" scenarios, whereby a single user controls both the devices. In this paper, we instead consider "social pairing" scenarios, whereby two different users establish pairing between their respective devices. We present a comprehensive study to identify methods suitable for social pairing, and comparatively evaluate the usability and security of these methods. Our results identify methods best-suited for users, in terms of efficiency, error-tolerance and of course, usability. Our work provides insights on the applicability and usability of methods for emerging social pairing scenarios, a topic largely ignored so far.